Effectiveness of Pennsylvania resiliency program on attribution styles and psychological adjustment in college students

Aim: The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of Penn resiliency program on student psychological adaptation and attribution styles.
In this pretest-posttest nonequivalent-group design in company with 2 months follow up stage, 30 students at Shahid Beheshti University in experimental and control groups responded to the student adaptation to college questionnaire Baker & Siryk (1984) and attribution style questionnaire Peterson, Semel, von Beayer, Abramson, Metalsky & Seligman (1982). The experimental group received 7 resilience training sessions (2 hours per session).
The results of covariance analysis indicated that Penn resilience program was effective in increasing psychological adaptation and optimistic explanatory patterns and in decreasing pessimistic explanatory patterns in short term and long term.
This findings suggest that Penn resilience program in university students could result in increasing psychological adjustment by providing the ability to use optimistic explanatory patterns.